Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:31:56 -0600
From: Ranald Gault <gaultr@cadvision.com>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Jet Ski ban in US Nation
> curerent tally: 58.6 for the ban vs. 41.3 against the ban, with something over
> 4,000 votes counted so far. GO VOTE!
Okay, I'm writing from Canada so I've no particular right to offer an opinion
in this matter, but I don't see why this poll is being taken seriously. The
question as posed on the website leads to such ambiguity in interpreting the
result that surely no legislative body would consider it to be meaningful.
Besides, " Jet Skis and other personal watercraft" not only implicitly includes
such benign boats as are discussed in this group, but the tender dinghies hanging
off the sterns of yachts belonging to corrupt (oops! sorry, sorry) politicians and
other astronomically wealthy and influential patricians. What are the chances of
such a poll being taken seriously? It's simply stupid. In fact, I'd rank it
right down there with the last Quebec referendum question.
[The writer subsequently embarked on a brief career as a lightning arrestor.]